Minor Specializations and Elective Courses
Minor Specializations – Registration and Enrolment
Minor Specialization Registration
Registration of the minor specialization must be carried out by the student according to the specified schedule for a semester in which he/she wants to study, i.e. usually in the 2nd or 3rd semester of master’s studies.
Minor specialization can be chosen within any VŠE Faculty based in Prague.
The departments inform about specific conditions of various minor specializations via their webpages. Some specializations can be studied within one semester, others are recommended to be studied during a longer period. For some specializations, the entrance conditions – usually the grade point average – are determined.
ATTENTION: Due to the capacity of the minor specializations, the student is expected to start studying the chosen specialization immediately after registration.
Conditions of registration
- the student must study a master’s degree programme
- he/she must be allowed to study a minor specialization (it is possible that all minor specializations are forbidden for him/her, e.g. for distance or combined studies students)
- he/she may not be already signed in to any other minor specialization
- the student can register to an unlimited amount of minor specializations in different priorities
Automated enrolment of minor specializations
Minor specializations are enrolled for registered students according to the faculty schedule.
Firstly, those who have chosen the minor specialization with priority 1, are satisfied. If there are more such candidates, those with better entrance exam results are preferentially satisfied. If there is no selection procedure for the chosen minor specialization, students are selected according to the number of credits earned and lost. The remaining places are set with those with priority 2, 3, etc. Any additional vacancies can be occupied during manual enrolment.
At the time of manual enrolment, students can directly enrol for the remaining vacancies. However, registration after the end of the registration does not allow overcapacity registration of specialization subjects. Therefore, it is strongly recommended to register your minor specialization properly.
After the manual enrolment is completed, the students signed in the InSIS Minor Specialization application are moved to the Study Agenda. Only then can students register for subjects in the relevant groups of courses according to the minor specialization curriculum (courses groups sP and sV).
Minor specialization change
An additional change of the minor specialization is possible only with the approval of the guarantor of the specialization!
With the written consent of the minor specialization guarantor, it is then necessary to visit the Vice-Dean for Studies, who considers the removal of the minor specialization. It is usually possible to do so only if a student has not yet studied any course from the specialization and when he/she intends to study another minor specialization. That is why it is advisable to bring the written consent of the new minor specialization guarantor directly. The status of the student’s credit vouchers must always be considered.
Extra-semestrial courses and extra language study
Intensive courses
Every semester, visiting professors come to the Faculty of International Relations. Their courses are offered as intensive, usually in the range of 3 to 5 days.
Although these courses are often called extra-semestrial, they are included in regular course registrations in InSIS. Look for them when pre-registering and registering regular courses for the relevant upcoming semester. You can always find the exact dates for intensive courses in the notes on the course’s timetable.
The departments that offer intensive courses usually list them on their websites. For example, you can learn who teaches the course. You will find the course completion requirements in the syllabus, just like for the other courses.
Extra-semestrial courses
In case a course of a visiting professor is offered at the last minute and there is no longer time for the course to be included in the registrations, it will be listed (from the InSIS point of view) as an extra-semestrial course. In this case, look for the course under extra-semestrial courses and follow the schedule that is given there.
Extra-semestrial courses are also used by departments when they need to enrol a few students who need the respective course to complete their curriculum in the semester. Even such courses are offered in InSIS as extra-semestrial courses, and a special schedule of entries and grades input is followed.
A special kind of extra-semestrial courses are final state exams and defense of thesis papers (so-called persistent subjects). They are listed in InSIS as extra-semestrial for technical reasons and are therefore also searchable under the other extra-semestrial courses. For these courses the rule is applied that should you not complete them successfully, they will be automatically registered in the next semester.
For technical reasons, extra-semestrial courses for the winter semester cannot be registered in InSIS before September 1 and the summer semester ones before the first day of the summer semester. For the same reason, it is necessary to wait for the September state exams to be published and open for registrations by the respective departments until after 1 September.
Extra language studies at FIR
If a student is interested in studying language courses at FIR, but does not have available credits, he/she can buy credit vouchers and study such a selected language course in a so-called extra study.
The price is CZK 700 per credit.
Information will be provided by individual language departments. We recommend that you first contact them and then submit an application form to the study department (Form: Application for extra studies).
In special cases, other courses can be studied in this way; information is provided by the respective departments where such courses are offered, or by the Vice-Dean for Studies.